Open Libraries “… are signs of life and hope: They are the cornerstone of democracy”

Open URL

Open URL solves the appropriate copy issue, but many other questions have sprung up for library discussion.

You can learn more in Roy Tennant and Carol Tenopir’s forthcoming July columns.

• Should Google have a list of resolvers? What about Microsoft?
• Is it useful for OCLC to be developing a registry?
• Why is the usability so poor? Pop window after pop up window…
• Do users want a limit to full-text programmed for them?
• Should it be as easy as writing a weblog entry to link to library subscription resources? The inventors of COinS think so.

Not all major research libraries have turned Google Scholar and Open URL:
http://lib.typepad.com/suggest/2006/06/google_scholar.html